On 21-01-17 21:25, Brian Gaff wrote:

The phase errors are just awful but given you can get really good no loss
compression these days why do people cling on to mp3? I was told some years
ago its all down to buffer sizes, well that may have been true once but even
phones have more memory than enough these days.

"Buffer sizes"?

No, it is down to bandwidth and main storage. A lot of people
(especially in the UK) still pay for their phone data transfers
dependent on the amount of data - making lossless about 3 times
as expensive as 256k MP3. Storage space in phones and other mobile
devices is also limited. I can choose between having my whole
record collection in my car stereo as MP3, or something like a
third of it as lossless.

Julf